Hey guys,
So I know my posting over the holidays until now has been a bit sporadic but I promise it will go back to posting weekly.
This week, well half week, has been the loneliest I have ever been. I think I have been lonely before but never like this; this is being homesick. I was looking online at symptoms of being homesick and how to help it and what I got out of that is that I have every symptom of homesickness. When my mom was in London with me we discussed when I was going to go back home and that was going to be in mid July when my dad was coming to visit me, as he is attending a meeting in Wales at that time. After long talks with my one cousin and my sister I decided I wanted to go home earlier. So I have been talking to my parents and going home at the end of April or in early to mid May is under very strong consideration right now. I do love the UK and I always will and who knows maybe someday I will come back to go to university or something but for now I just really want to be at home with my family and friends. I think when I came I had this ideal picture of what it would be to live by myself; freedom, friends, travelling, and more. I feel like I have not gotten or become the person I want to be but at the same time I don’t want to leave quite yet because I feel like I don’t want to disappoint anyone especially myself. At this point I don’t even know if I want to post this because it is quite personal. I feel like this is just a space for me to write though as if it was a journal so maybe I will post it so I am able to look back on this and know how I felt at this point in time.
I still have 6 days left before I go on holidays with my family and I am quiet excited and I am already packed for the most part. I am also still waiting for a pair of shoes I ordered as well as a laptop cover to come in the mail. I ordered this laptop cover just after New Years and I’m surprised it’s taking this long for it to arrive.
I spent Monday handing out my CV which is not something that comes easily to me. I am very proud of myself for being persistent and self motivated and completing this task though. I printed off 10 resumes and in the end was only able to give away 2 of them which is a bit disappointing considering I went to over a dozen shops. Everywhere said you have to apply online now but you can only apply if they have job vacancies. When I went online none of them had very many job vacancies or if they did they were very far away, like in Sheffield. I still do want to get a job but I have a feeling it will be a lot more difficult than I thought it would be.
Yesterday I walked all the way to B&Q which is about 2.6 km both ways. It was cold and rainy and windy and just not fun. I made it though. On the way back I decided to walk to the nearest tube station though which was still about a 20 min walk but it was nowhere near as bad as the walk there. I was wet and muddy and cold so when I came home I just decided I was not going out again I would just sit at home with the heat on. I also watched an episode of “White Collar” with my cousin last night. We decided once a week we would watch something together just to keep each other company and have something to look forward to during the week.
Today I did a lot of laundry but it is frustrating not to have a drier when I was bedding. Washing laundry is an all day task as my flat is small and everything has to hang dry. Since my mom and sister left I haven’t been sleeping as well. I tend to wake up really early and not be able to sleep even though I am going to bed pretty late, as I am talking to my family. I have been waking up early and doing laundry then going back to bed and being able to sleep for an hour or two more than waking up and starting my day by hanging laundry.
Yesterday I also signed up for some more classes. I signed up for a book keeping class and a comedy of YouTube class. So starting at the end of February all the way to the end of April I will have classes. I am hoping this will help me meet people as well as giving me something to to. I am also really hoping that through taking those classes as well as the psychology and anthropology classes I will have a better idea of what I would like to do in university and do as a job. I think I will be going to school at least for my first degree back home and just to a bachelor of arts and start at the very beginning with an undeclared major and minor. I think I want to take human ecology though as well as psychology and who knows maybe business or teaching or some sort of theatre. I am really not sure yet. I know that is one thing my parents want me to figure out while I am here but I am not sure if that will happen or not yet.
I was thinking about it and I feel as if when I came here I should have had more of a plan rather than just saying I’m going to move to London because I like the city and I will just figure it out when I come here. I feel like before my family was here for Christmas I was doing okay and accepting that it was okay to just go out for an hour or two then sit at home and watch Netflix. Or I was at least telling myself it was okay. When my family left I felt as if I was back at step one and sitting at step one broken. I think this is why I really want to go home. I think about it and if I went back home I would get a job, much easier than in London, I would have my friends and family, I would start riding again, and I would maybe audit some classes or shadow people. I feel like I can’t really shadow people here as I don’t know anybody especially I don’t know anybody in jobs I would want.
I find it odd too that it is so rainy and wet in London but my skin is so dry. I’m really not sure why this is but it is not fun. I also think that I am going to start doing something like “100 Happy Days” but I will write them doing in a journal a family friend gave me than every 10 days I will post them. I think if at the end of the day I reflect and find something positive than I may become happier with myself. So I am going to try it for 100 days and if I feel like it is helping and is something I enjoy I will keep doing it. I even find writing posts quiet calming and it puts me in a better mindset already. I guess it just gets all my feelings and concerns out there. Maybe somebody in a similar situation will see this and just know that they are not alone in these type of feelings.
So for now I think I’ve put a lot out there and I just need to post it and digest it and reflect on how I feel and what I want to do. Anyways thanks for being considerate, kind, and understanding with my situation right now.
Thanks,
Ashley xx